Sebastian Kurz Quotes

Where asylum is used as a route to economic migration, it can cause deep resentment in the host community.

Europe - with hundreds of millions of people - can accept hundreds of thousands of migrants.

I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.

The melting pot has sprung a leak.

Invite colonists from all the other nations of Europe.

I just want to encourage you all... to rethink the resettlement of refugees in this country, especially in the numbers I'm hearing.

Without a policy restricting immigration, it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to fight against communalism and the rise of ways of life at odds with laicite - France's distinctive form of secularism - and other laws and values of the French Republic.

There are a lot of us that want to see limitations on refugee resettlement programs.

Syrian refugees fleeing to Europe do not go through anything like the rigorous process experienced by those who are coming to the States, and the volume of Syrians fleeing to Europe is orders of magnitude larger than it is to the United States.

I believe that if we don't offer legal ways of emigrating to Europe and immigrating within Europe, we will be lost. If those who come - who are, generally speaking, the poor and needy - are no longer able to enter the house of Europe through the front door, they'll keep making their way in through the back windows.

European countries simply do not have the ideological framework the United States has in the shape of the 'American dream' that has helped to absorb successfully wave after wave of immigration to the States, including Muslim Americans who are well integrated into American society. There is no analogous French dream or German dream.

We must find a way to balance our tradition as a state welcoming of refugees while ensuring the safety and security of our citizens.

There should be a global commitment to try and get rid of UNHCR refugee camps and long-term people in those camps.

Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.

We are a continent of refugees, and if you say we can't integrate refugees, that's not consistent with our values, even if borders cannot be wide open.

Enough of Sicily being the refugee camp of Europe. I will not stand by and do nothing while there are landings after landings of migrants.

Forcing states to take refugees doesn't take Europe any further.

In 2015, the majority of refugees and migrants reached the European Union through Greece. Greek authorities were overwhelmed by the sheer number of people arriving at their shores. But they did not stay there. They were waved through to Central Europe at an increasing pace.

I think we forget that, for a really long time, this country has been a place that has welcomed many refugees who have made it home and have tremendously contributed to this country.

In Greece, refugees are being waved through to the heart of Europe. That is simply unacceptable in the long run. The European Union cannot act like a human trafficker.

European leaders cannot afford to be afraid. The refugee crisis is not one from which they can opt out. No magic wand will empower leaders to transport more than a million people back across the Aegean and the Bosphorus to Mosul and Aleppo, or across the Mediterranean to Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan.

I predict that as warm weather returns to Europe, so will the flood of Middle Eastern immigrants.

The Trump administration recognizes that most refugees and immigrants are good people, but practical and temporary measures must be taken to keep this nation safe from the few bad individuals who seek to harm us.

I ask our European partners for a truly European migration management. The burden of landings cannot weigh only on the countries of arrival.

Since when can somebody tell me a time or a case where there has been a Syrian refugee in this country who has committed an act of terror?